Charlotte David
Marguerite-Charlotte David (born Marguerite-Charlotte Pécoul) (1764–1826) was the French wife of the painter Jacques-Louis David.
She was born in Paris to Charles-Pierre Pécoul [Wikidata], the superintendent of Royal buildings, and his wife Marie-Louise, née l'Alouette.
Marguerite-Charlotte was roughly half the age of her husband when they married on 16 May 1782. They had four children: Charles Louis Jules David (born 19 February 1783), François Eugène David (born 27 April 1784), and the twin daughters Laure Émilie Félicité David and Pauline Jeanne David (born 26 October 1786).
In 1784 Jacques-Louis David painted pendant portraits of his parents-in-law. By that time David-Pécoul's birth mother had died, and her father had married his second wife Geneviève Jacqueline, née Potain, who was the sister of the architect Nicolas Marie Potain. The portraits were possibly painted on the occasion of this second marriage:
David-Pécoul divorced her rebelling husband in 1793 for voting against the king during the Reign of Terror but after his imprisonment in 1794–1795 she remarried him in 1796. In 1795 he painted pendant portraits of Charlotte's sister Emilie and her husband Pierre Seriziat, with their son:
In 1812 David painted pendant portraits of his daughters Laure Émilie Félicité and Pauline Jeanne:
Daughter Laure was married to Baron Claude Marie Meunier:
Daughter Pauline Jeanne was married to Jean-Baptiste Jeanin:
When the painter was forced to leave Paris in 1815, David-Pécoul joined him in exile in Brussels where he enjoyed a career as painter and teacher before dying in 1825.
After her husband died she tried to have him buried in Paris, but even after death he was refused repatriation and he is buried in Brussels cemetery. She moved back to Paris, where she died the following year and is buried in Père Lachaise cemetery along with her children. David's son had Jacques-Louis David's heart buried alongside the remains of his wife at Père Lachaise.
- Grave of Jacques-Louis David
References
- 1880 comprehensive biography and catalog Le peintre Louis David, 1748-1825 and accompanying illustrations by his grandson, Jacques Louis Jules David (1829-1886)
External links
- Short biography
- Painting record on museum website
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- List of works
- Portrait of François Buron (1769)
- Jupiter and Antiope (1771)
- Minerva Fighting Mars (1771)
- Diana and Apollo Killing Niobe's Children (1772)
- The Death of Seneca (1773)
- Erasistratus Discovering the Cause of Antiochus' Disease (1774)
- The Funeral Games of Patroclus (1778)
- Saint Jerome Hears the Trumpet of the Last Judgment (1779)
- Saint Roch Interceding with the Virgin for the Plague-Stricken (1780)
- Portrait of Count Stanislas Potocki (1780)
- Belisarius Begging for Alms (1781)
- Christ on the Cross (1782)
- Andromache Mourning Hector (1783)
- Portrait of Alphonse Leroy (1783)
- Oath of the Horatii (1784)
- The Vestal Virgin (c. 1787)
- The Death of Socrates (1787)
- Portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and his Wife (1788)
- The Loves of Paris and Helen (1788)
- The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons (1789)
- Portrait of Madame Pastoret (1791)
- Lycurgus of Sparta (1791)
- Portrait of Philippe-Laurent de Joubert (c. 1792)
- Portrait of Madame Marie-Louise Trudaine (1792, unfinished)
- The Death of Marat (1793)
- The Last Moments of Michel Lepeletier (1793, lost)
- The Death of Young Bara (1794, incomplete)
- The Tennis Court Oath (1794, incomplete)
- Self-Portrait (1794)
- Portrait of Pierre Seriziat (1795)
- Psyche Abandoned (1795)
- The Intervention of the Sabine Women (1799)
- Portrait of Madame Récamier (1800)
- Portrait of Cooper Penrose (1802)
- Napoleon at the Saint-Bernard Pass (1800–1805)
- Portrait of Pope Pius VII (1805)
- Napoleon in Imperial Costume (1805)
- The Coronation of Napoleon (1807)
- Sappho and Phaon (1809)
- The Distribution of the Eagle Standards (1810)
- Portrait of comte Antoine Français de Nantes (1811)
- Napoleon in His Study (1812)
- Leonidas at Thermopylae (1814)
- Cupid and Psyche (1817)
- The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis (1818)
- The Anger of Achilles (1819)
- Mars Being Disarmed by Venus (1824)
- Marguerite Charlotte Pécoul (wife)
- Neoclassicism
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